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Since 1967, Flash Art is synonym of a cutting edge perspective on contemporary art and global art landscape. Renowned for its iconic covers, currently active with International and Italian Edition, the magazine remains – after more than five decades – committed to analysing and reporting established but also experimental art practices and happenings in the art world, publishing essays by the most authoritative critics and observers together with artists statements and special projects exclusively conceived for the magazine.

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Is it identity that determines form or form that somehow constitutes the identity of an artistic practice? While analyzing some notable visual practices — each inescapably linked to an artist’s personality and the ways in which they experience society — we reflected on this question. In this winter issue, titled "FORMS/IDENTITIES", we delve into these two concepts that inform one another like complementary colors. 

Octavia Bürgel, in her text on Tourmaline, one of the issue’s cover stories, considers the words of Diane Arbus, who once wondered “what it is to become whoever we may be.” Unlike Arbus’s subjects, who in a sense cease to exist beyond their limited picture plane, Tourmaline’s presence in her videos and photographs becomes part of a shared real-world narrative, a part of the legacy of Black history that she questions by “taking an approach that renders herself indivisible from ancestors in the fight for transgender liberation.” 

Spanning performance, works on paper, and photography, Tosh Basco’s practice, as Matthew McLean points out, “finds forms for the inexpressible, in order to explore what happens outside languages and in between them.” Whether they employ movement, lip-synching, mark-making, or the photographic image, her embodied works are like portals to a fleeting moment in time. Stories of transdisciplinary identities intermingle in this issue. 

One of them is the preternaturally gifted artist, musician, model, and actress Kaya Wilkins — known in the creative industry as Okay Kaya, the other cover story of this issue. Among other things, she discusses with Isabelia Herrera her visceral connection to water, a motif that finds expression in multiple forms, including her latest album, "SAP" (2022), released last November. 

Returning to photography, Olamiju Fajemisin offers us a fresh and timely analysis of Wolfgang Tillmans, arguing how “his recurrent point of departure is the single image — an image that is self-sufficient and attempts to challenge its condition of singularity as a standalone work.” 

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Also in this issue: a special project conceived by Sylvie Fleury and shared by Gucci; and a conversation between Gaetano Pesce and Hans Ulrich Obrist on the genesis of his Come Stai? chairs for Bottega Veneta as well as some of his other notable works both realized and unrealized. Gaetano Pesce also designed an unpublished cover for the issue. The issue will be available at Art Basel Miami.